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The AOC's vineyards cover approximately 370 hectares (910 acres), shared by 49 wine-growing communes in the Rhône département, and between them they produce approximately 22,000 hectolitres of wine.
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The climate is very similar to that of the
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AOC status was granted on May 9, 1984, and was signed by the then
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